Exciting News! UUA Announces its New Headquarters!

I am delighted to tell you that last night the Unitarian Universalist Association’s (UUA) Board of Trustees authorized the purchase of a new headquarters for the UUA at 24 Farnsworth Street in Boston’s Innovation District and the sale of our current Beacon Hill properties. This is truly a historic moment for our UU movement.

This new facility will reflect and promote our values and aspirations. It will allow staff to collaborate and work more closely with colleagues and constituents across the world. Visitors, committee members, and youth groups will be able to gather, meet, worship, and learn in a flexible space that is accessible to all. It will meet key environmental standards to reduce our impact on the Earth. Our movement will grow into a new era in this new space.

After a strategic analysis of our current infrastructure, we became very aware of the limitations of our headquarters including accessibility issues, members of staff spread out across 16 floors making collaboration and communication difficult, inadequate meeting space, and many more issues facing a modern workplace. These factors helped us determine that to renovate would be financially prohibitive.

With this information and after much deliberation, we concluded that in order to further our movement and work in a place that reflected our values, we needed a new headquarters. I am thrilled that our new headquarters will meet the current and future needs of the Association and our religious community.

In the weeks and months to come, the UUA will be sharing information about the new headquarters as it develops, and we want you to participate. There will be many opportunities for engagement, conversation, and contributions to this vital transition. To start, watch this video highlighting UUA staff’s unique insight into this important and historic opportunity.

I am deeply appreciative of the scrupulous attention given to this matter by our Board of Trustees and of the work of our staff who contributed to the search process for a new headquarters. I give thanks to the countless individuals who have visited our headquarters at 25 Beacon Street and to all who have made it a place worthy of such admiration and meaning. I look forward to building upon our traditions and dreams in our new home.